Hitler’s Table Talk is a worthless primary source. There, I said it. And I’m not just saying this to evoke a reaction. I’m saying it because I really mean it. The renowned “Hitler expert” Lord Dacre, better known as Hugh Trevor-Roper, knowingly and willingly engaged in a massive cover-up regarding Hitler’s Table Talk (hereafter TT). Had it not been for the outstanding research at the low cost of just $50 taken up by historian Richard Carrier, we might still be in the dark about this, 64 years after TT’s first appearance in the English language. Sorry to bust this bubble, Hitler and Third Reich enthusiasts, but TT is worthless. In this article, I will establish three things: 1) that Hugh Trevor-Roper knowingly and willingly engaged in academic fraud for profit and prestige, 2) that TT is a worthless primary source, and 3) that renowned Hitler “experts”, both Revisionist and Mainstream, have failed the public regarding reliable Hitler primary sources.

Whose “table talks”?

Before we commence, a brief word about the texts in question is necessary. The so-called “table talks” were written down by Martin Bormann’s aides, Heinrich Heim and Henry Picker, from 1941 to 1944. Aside from Heim and Picker, there are two more “table talk” authors, Bormann himself, “who contributed at least four entries, and a man known only as Müller.”

Mr. Picker was the first to publish his “table talks,” and he did so in German only. They were published as Tischgespräche im Führerhauptquartier 1941–1942, in 1951 and 1963, respectively. His book included some of Heim’s notes that he happened to come across, and which he then altered for his book.

According to Nilsson, François Genoud, who we will discuss later, published the first volume of a French version of the “table talks” a year later, following that up with a second volume in 1954. This French version (henceforth LP) “was not based on the same German original as Picker’s… but on a second manuscript that had purportedly been acquired by Genoud, the so-called Bormann-Vermerke” (henceforth B-V5). And even though the “form, content and provenance of the [B-V] remain obscure,” historian David Irving attested to this manuscript’s authenticity nonetheless. Adds Nilsson, LP eventually contained both Heim’s and Picker’s notes in subsequent volumes and editions. Genoud then had LP translated into English, by which time it had been “expanded to cover the whole period from 1941 to the end of 1944, and to include all of Heim’s and Picker’s notes said to have been in Genoud’s possession.”

Writes Nilsson in this regard: The German text, which the French and English editions are said to be based upon, was, for reasons that are unclear, not published until 1980. It was given the title Monologe im Führerhauptquartier… This edition does not contain Picker’s notes either due to a struggle over intellectual property rights. It does not help that both Heim’s and Picker’s original manuscripts seem to have been lost.

So far, Mr. Carrier is the only historian who has compared these various “table talks” in a systematic way. His conclusions have exposed the English and French “table talks” as “highly questionable,” particularly if they are based on the same manuscript used for Genoud’s Monologe. The English “table talks,” Carrier reveals, are based in whole or part on Genoud’s LP, “and… both the English and French editions contain additions to, and mistranslations of, the German texts that they are supposedly based on.” Nilsson himself “address[es] certain questions related to the authenticity of the B-V, as well as the accuracy of the translations,”all of which is pertinent to most historians’ claim that Hitler is the author/originator of the “table talks.” As we will soon see, he was not.

Indeed, there is a whole lot of mystery and very little certainty surrounding “Hitler’s” supposed “table talks”.

Hugh Trevor-Roper’s failings

Let’s begin with Hugh Trevor-Roper. Contrary to his respectable and honest public image, Trevor-Roper knowingly and willingly engaged in deception and fraud behind the scenes. The Hitler Diaries, proven to be a fraud, were not a unique fail for Trevor-Roper. In fact, as Swedish historian Mikael Nilsson has demonstrated, Trevor-Roper had a long trail of academic fails that he hid from the public eye.

His first fail is The Testament of Adolf Hitler, also known as Hitlers politisches Testament, first published in French in 1959, and in English in 1961. David Irving, and other historians such as Ian Kershaw, exposed this document, which was “acquired” and doctored by the notorious Nazi apologist and document peddler François Genoud, as a fraud. A fake.

Not surprisingly, I was attacked on Facebook for declaring that “Hitler’s Table Talk” is a “fraud,” which it is. The first attack reads: “Hitler’s table talk a fraud? based on what? what a BS. Have you ever red in in the original version? It is totally impossible to fake such prestigious thoughts that jump in all directions, but always in depth and related,,, you can not [sic] fake that, especially as their [sic] is no goal in faking it, they make hitler look better and there is not even a prooof [sic] of gas chambers or whatsoever in it. BASIC LOGIC APPLIED Bitte.” The second attack reads: “Did you read it? No you didn’t. Nor has [C] here. No single argument in the content that proves it is a fraud either just a statement. Not even a ball pen argument like Anne Franck hoaxers. The table talks are ingenious remarks from a well thought person on a host of topics impossible to fake. Are there transcrition [sic] error or some augmented passages, possibly. But even then, for what agenda. There is NONE.”

(*note: portions of original article skipped here viewable in the following link [along with it in its entirety] – Wilk Mocy Publishers)

…We still have neo-nazis touting the TT in its own dedicated podcast series, episodes 1 through 56. One neo-nazi writes on her website:

• How trustworthy is this text, since Martin Bormann assigned two of his aides to take the notes during meals, then turn them over to him for “checking” and safekeeping;

• Why it is valuable to study this book;

• Questions about the translation and translators – for example, did François Genoud tamper with the parts about Christianity;

• Of those offended by this book, Christians are #1 on the list, complaining that it does not agree with Hitler’s “public record” of positive remarks about Christianity in earlier years;

• David Irving and Albert Speer both confirmed that these recorded talks are authentically Hitler; Richard Carrier disagrees;

• Next week we’ll begin reading the text.

Indeed, the only aspect of TT with which most neo-nazis disagree is a few select entries about Christianity. Everything else is “legit” in their collective opinion. TT remains the most highly valued text next to Mein Kampf, also the result of extensive editing and external influence (such as that of Rudolf Hess and Max Amann), in the White Nationalist, Hitler worshiping community. We therefore owe it to these groups, and to the public at large, to tell them the truth about this text. It is not the words of Adolf Hitler.

9 Responses to VK Clark on ‘Table Talk’ fraudulence

Not that any of this makes much difference to myself considering I rarely ever speak on Hitler, but I thought I should say that in my opinion had Hitler known his name would damage National Socialism in the future he would have been the first to tell National Socialists not to use it, he did after all put a bullet through his own brain in a bunker…

I don’t foresee Hitler coming up to much in my political discussions about the True Left for example…

If what VK says is true then revisionists truly have their work cut out for them. Not sure if there’s anything else to say?

I also think that because of the visceral hatred for Hitler by Jewry, they went so over the top with their propaganda against the man that true National Socialism can be presented to the unwashed masses under a different name, and most of them won’t know the difference. That video link someone posted not so long ago if Antifa protesters cheering Hitler’s points taken from his speeches proves this.

Perhaps the true work of revisionism is to prove to “white” Westerners that they have Hitler all wrong, because it doesn’t feel like the rest of the non-”white” world really needs it at this point?

Furthermore, when I hear someone use the word ” white” to identify themselves these days, my pen is already hovering over the ‘write-off’ checkbox so-to-speak. As AS mentioned in his last post by citing JAM’s latest correspondence, and adding a bit to it, from a strategic standpoint alone, who needs Wester “whites” in the fight against Jewry anyway, considering most of the world are non-”white”, not Judeo-Christian, and don’t have the same hang ups in discovering the truth that so many Westerner’s have?

Personally I wonder why on earth VK’s thing has even got on the Blog, cos honestly, she doesn’t basically say anything original of her own, but is basically verbatim reading the writings of someone who she openly says is a Jewish scholar… and to be honest, when she says this is going to affect neo-nazis, my experience of WN “nazis” is they basically all are very wary of the Table Talk, and it seems more likely to affect folks like us who want to see his broader perspective. Comparing Table Talk to Mein Kampf, especially in light of actually decisions and actions of Hitler and the Third Reich are evidence that the more narrow “tribalist” stuff in MK was mostly propaganda to appeal to the German people where they were at, as opposed to really the end-goal of where Hitler was attempting to take Germany…

So anyway, we did have a bit of a discussion about this on the Discord earlier, and Gerulf had a few good statements about the whole thing. Also never in VK’s article does she actually really make any quotes from the Table Talk itself. Of course, she says all this stuff about this wheeling and that dealing – the whole thing of the translation being based on that guy’s French translation and actually not being allowed to use the “original German” is pretty suspicious, but of course, I’m only going off the evidence as presented by VK quoting directly from an article written by a Jewish scholar… So would be interesting to actually verify all this stuff…

Although I value greatly the research of Veronica Kuzniar-Clark, it’s hard to agree with her on the issue of Table Talk. Clark claims that Table Talk is mostly an invention of Picker and Heim, but apart from her own conjectures she does not bring up any hard evidence to support this hypothesis. On the other hand, the authenticity of Table Talk has been confirmed by Albert Speer, among others. As far as I know most historians consider Table Talk authentic, although many of them have pointed out that English translation is far from perfect. Therefore, it is recommended for historical research to use the German original instead of the Trevor-Roper edition. But even so, calling Table Talk “worthless” is a gross exaggeration. An example of a worthless historical source is Hermann Rauschning’s “Hitler Speaks”, a collected conversations, which were completely invented by the author. We now know beyond any doubt that Rauschning is a mere fraudster who claimed to have met Hitler more than houndred times while in reality he met him at most four times and never alone (but it didn’t stop him from writing a thick book about his made up conversations with Hitler).

Personally, I really like Table Talk. When someone asks me about objective, non-biased books that will allow us to get know the real Hitler, not a monster created by Jewish-Allied propaganda, I always recommend them to read Table Talk in the first place. The careful reader will also notice that, contrary to popular belief, Table Talk is not anti-Christian but anti-Judeo-Christian. Whenever Hitler denounces “Christianity” in Table Talk, he is actually referring to Judeo-Christianity (for example, he accuses Saul-Paul of corrupting the true teachings of Jesus). The above claim may be substantiated by a fact that in Table Talk Hitler never attacks Jesus, he always speaks positively about him and speaks of him as an Aryan.

The gist of Carrier and Clark’s arguments is that the French/English translation of the Table Talk have been distorted, so the whole entire conversations (and not just the translations) should be considered worthless.

My reply: You could say the same thing about the Bible. It contains obvious late century interpolations and the Luther Bible, KJV, etc. are horribly inaccurate and outdated. Does that invalidate the whole entire book or it’s translations? Certainly not.

Only people who are too lazy to do the translating themselves and in dread of finding out the actual truth about Hitler want to wish away the Table Talks.

Why exactly did you make this blog post? You just made this post with that disclaimer on top, and that’s it.

It’s not like you asked to start a conversation about why indivuals should approve or disapprove Weronika Kuzniar’s claims on “T.T.” in the post and/or comments. You also didn’t even explicitly try to start a general conversation on the topic aforementioned in the same places.

You all really should consider this very relevant Comment of NuminousSun, bc he has a point, in what i consider to have a negative affect on this network:

NuminousSun says:
July 19, 2017 at 7:13 pm

Not that any of this makes much difference to myself considering I rarely ever speak on Hitler, …….!!!! but I thought I should say that in my opinion had Hitler known his name would damage National Socialism in the future he would have been the first to tell National Socialists not to use it, he did after all put a bullet through his own brain in a bunker…!!!!